First Grade Scope and Sequence – Writing First Trimester

August – November Second Trimester

November – March Third Trimester

March - June Writing Procedures The structure of the writing workshop and the writing process

• Explaining the routines, guidelines, and procedures of Writing Workshop

• Explaining the components of Writing Workshop - mini-lessons, writing, conferring, sharing (speaking clearly and audibly), and offering feedback (praise)

• Establishing Publishing procedures

• Continue to review procedures previously taught

• Explaining the components of Writing Workshop - self assessment using writing rubrics, sharing (responding to audience), offering feedback (questions)

• Continue to review procedures previously taught

• Explaining the components of Writing Workshop-offering feedback (suggestions)

First Trimester August – November

Second Trimester November – March

Third Trimester March - June

Writing Craft The “how to” and qualities of good writing

• Labeling pictures • Writing picture captions • Selecting a topic • Prewriting using discussions and graphic

organizers such as webs, pictures • Creating original work • Telling a complete story • Writing sentences (complete thoughts) • Expressing thoughts clearly • Staying on topic • Using details to describe (simple to more

complex) • Illustrating text • Writing for a variety of purposes-

expressive • Using a variety of modes to develop

writing such as personal narrative, procedures, letters, lists, signs, journal entries

• Responding to literature

• Continue to review strategies previously taught

• Organizing writing in sequence

• Writing an interesting lead/ beginning

• Writing an ending that shows closure

• Showing a sense of audience

• Writing for a variety of purposes- informative

• Beginning to use figurative language - onomatopoeia

• Using transition words such as first, next, then, finally, after

• Choosing vivid word (nouns, verbs, adjectives)

• Using teacher and peer guided revision (review, confer, make simple changes)

• Creating a complete text

• Continue to review strategies previously taught

• Writer begins expressing own personality - voice

• Writing for a variety of purposes – persuasive

• Beginning to use figurative language – simile

• Using a variety of modes to develop writing such as: note taking, email, reports

First Trimester August – November

Second Trimester November – March

Third Trimester March – June

Writing Mechanics The conventions of writing (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, usage, and grammar)

• Differentiating between letter, word, and sentence

• Spacing between words • Stretching words (encouraging

transitional spelling) • Spelling word wall words correctly • Using capital letters (sentence

beginnings, proper nouns, I) • Using punctuation . ? ! • Editing -teacher assisted

• Continue to review skills previously taught

• Beginning to use editing marks such as: caret, circled misspellings

• Beginning to edit independently

• Continue to review skills previously taught

• Using commas in a series